Aquário da Madeira

The aquarium of Madeira stands in a rebuilt fort dedicated to São João Baptista: the original was raised in 1730 against the pirate raids on Porto Moniz, and the Câmara bought its ruins in 1998 to restore them from the surviving iconography. It opened on 4 September 2005 and holds more than 90 native species in twelve display tanks, drawn from the waters of the archipelago and, for many of them, of the rest of Macaronesia.